Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1749 1750 Southern Storm

The encirclement of Ironforge did not change much during the ten hours of negotiations, but outside this encirclement, ten hours had allowed the Tang army to redefine what the speed of advancement meant.

The 3rd Army suddenly started racing mode. After crossing the Porte River, the 3rd Armored Army never stopped advancing.

Strauss's troops advanced an average of more than 30 kilometers per hour, and by running the entire army apart, they captured a series of important cities first.

The resistance of the dwarves had completely collapsed, and the Tang army encountered no resistance at all in the dwarf cities they entered. The civilians looked at the Tang army entering the city nervously, and the Tang army did not have the energy to disturb those civilians who had no resistance.

Instead, they brought out their glorious tradition: they began to distribute the things they had brought with them, giving chocolate candies to the children, bread and luncheon meat to the women, and spare socks, raincoats and other things to the men.

After dividing the resources in this way, the Tang army stopped advancing when they had nothing left to give. This time, the Tang army controlled a large area of ​​the dwarf southwestern region.

Although this way of advancing would most likely force them to retreat if they encountered resistance or counterattack, the Tang army did not encounter any significant resistance, so they were able to gain a foothold.

The coalition forces were in no mood to arrange troops to enter the dwarf area to fight. They were worried that their troops would be forced to surrender, so they did not organize a counterattack of any scale.

In a quiet small city in the south of the dwarves, several children were playing carefree on the street. To them, the war seemed to have never broken out, and they had always lived in the sunshine.

Anyway, due to the exploitation of local nobles, their lives have always been difficult, so the shortage of supplies does not seem to have much to do with them.

As for the impact, it is not completely absent. At least their brother and father were drafted away from their hometown, and no one knows for sure whether they are still alive.

On this not-so-wide street, a Mengshi jeep drove by, followed closely by several military trucks.

Because the speed of advancement was so fast, the various wheeled vehicles of the Tang army rushed to the front. They had no protection and just looked tall and mighty.

The jeep stopped in front of a building with a signboard of the City Lord's Mansion, and a company commander jumped out of the passenger seat. Judging from his military branch insignia, he was an engineering company commander.

He walked up to the nervous dwarf guards with a soldier and asked condescendingly, "You have surrendered. We are here to take over this city. Now this place belongs to me. Go back to your barracks. Do you know the way?"

"I know, I know." The two soldiers swallowed and wanted to put down the Mosin-Nagant rifles they were carrying.

"Take this back and surrender all your weapons in the barracks." The engineer company commander of the Tang army took out a cigarette box from his pocket, lit a cigarette at the door, and waved his hand to signal the other party that they could leave.

Just like that, the two dwarf guards carried their weapons and left, leaving their posts to the new human soldiers.

These human soldiers wore nice camouflage uniforms, complicated tactical vests, and short-barreled assault rifles hung on their chests. They looked more handsome than the dwarf guards from any angle. Still accompanied by a guard, the engineer captain walked into the city lord's mansion and swaggered to control the city, including several barracks outside the city, and thousands of dwarf soldiers who were ordered to dig trenches and prepare for resistance a day ago.

The same scene appeared in many dwarven towns and villages. Wherever the Tang army went, the dwarven troops laid down their weapons. They had given up the war, especially when Ironforge was completely surrounded.

It seemed that Binghan Yishi was in no mood to care about the resistance in the southern region anymore. What he was now considering was whether he should keep the not-so-honorable position of Marquis.

This issue was so complicated that he had not yet sent out a telegram to instruct those southern cities that had lost command to put up a little resistance against the scattered Tang army troops that were rushing over.

A city surrendered to a regiment or a battalion, a town surrendered to a company, and a village could be occupied by just a platoon or even a squad... The dwarves' fighting spirit seemed to have disappeared overnight.

The actual situation is indeed like this. War is often a competition of the last breath: if the breath is not dissipated in the previous second, the two sides can still hold on, but if the breath collapses in the next second, the situation becomes one-sided.

Because gamblers will not stop until the last dollar is placed. Everyone thinks that the other party will collapse at the last second, so no one will give up halfway.

Then, the moment the losing side lost its last chip, defeat came suddenly, and the originally stalemate battle situation suddenly fell apart... just like the dwarves now.

No one had the mood to continue fighting. All the soldiers looked confusedly at the humans standing at the door of the barracks, who were far fewer in number than them, and then calmly handed over their weapons without any resistance.

One barracks after another was transformed into a ready-made prisoner-of-war camp. Compared with their predecessors who left here a few months ago and fought to death, the newly enlisted soldiers in these barracks seemed to be more fortunate.

They didn't have to lie in the trenches under artillery fire and wait for the Tang army's tank tracks to run over their heads, so they survived and didn't have to sacrifice their lives for a war that was doomed to fail.

Judging from the performance of the Tang army that captured them, this war seemed meaningless. Compared with the oppression of the landlords and the bullying of the nobles, these new humans seemed easier to get along with.

At least, they did not show any violent tendencies, and apart from confiscating the dwarves' weapons, the other side did not even have the intention of entering the barracks.

It was still a short time, and everyone had not yet gotten to know each other well, so they all kept restraint. Soon the dwarves would feel the changes of the times, and the arrival of the Tang army did not bring them humiliation, but a new life in a sense.

The children stood on the other side of the street curiously looking at the Tang army cars parked in front of the City Lord's Mansion. Even they could easily see that these cars were completely different from those used by their army.

Just from the appearance, you can easily tell which army has more advanced equipment, and just looking at the camouflage paint above you can feel the powerful combat effectiveness of the Tang army.